[Bug 2069615] Re: [3.x] Seeds inheritance not applied

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

I'm not sure about this. It really isn't how the inheritance
relationship in STRUCTURE files is designed to work for better or worse
(mostly worse I guess). For example, in livecd-rootfs the add_tasks
lines all list all these seeds. And as an when ubuntu-image supports
generating package pools, you will need to interpret the seed names
differently (this is the case when this kind of inheritance actually
makes sense).

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Title:
  [3.x] Seeds inheritance not applied

Status in Ubuntu Image:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Ubuntu-image relies on germinate to expand a package list from a seed
  URL and a seed list.

  Seeds declare a inheritance relationship in the STRUCTURE file. So for
  example standard inherit from minimal.

  Currently ubuntu-image does not consider this relationship, so users
  have to give the full list of seeds. So for example, when they want
  "standard" they need to list "minimal" and "standard". This is not
  ideal and will surely be problematic in the future when the
  inheritance relationship is modified in the seed.

  
  ubuntu-image should respect this inheritance and resolve it itself to get the full list of seeds, and thus packages to install.

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